Yes it’s documented that I am a New York Supporter and I hate DC United with a passion. But while my hate has some form of respect for the club in our Nation’s Capital I have been reading reports for the last couple of years that the Nation’s Capital has no respect for DC United & their supporters.

You’ve read my article on their problems of getting a new stadium approved and no matter how many times the club has tried to get something started within the District of Colombia, in the suburbs of Northern Virginia & or Southern Maryland, their hopes and dreams to get a stadium deal has been dashed.

But for those of you that are from DC and support the club I heard what happened on opening day at Nationals Baseball Stadium and I will share this to all of you who weren’t aware of this situation. On Yahoo Sports Baseball section I read a funny article from Baseball reporter & blogger Kevin Kaduk on the major gaff by the ticket sales office of the Washington Nationals.

For those of you that aren’t familiar on the driving distance, train distance or bus distance between New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington DC it’s not a long distance to get to these popular cities. A good two to four hours driving down the NJ Turnpike & I-95. There are usually a good two hundred supporters that travel for DC, Red Bulls, Revolution & soon the Union supporters will be joining in on the fun.

But could you imagine over five hundred and thirty Philadelphia Phillies fans coming down to Nationals Baseball Stadium and taking over the lower bowl section behind the Right Field Wall & helping them out was the front office of the Washington Nationals. We all know that the Nats have been having a tough time selling tickets for their regular season, but could you imagine the ultimate betrayal when their own front office doesn’t have the faith in their own supporters to come to the ballpark.

Now obviously we know the situation of the club playing in old rickety RFK Stadium and honestly one day a big chunk will come loose and hurt someone and that is something I hope doesn’t happen. But when Mayor Fenty can’t help a professional sports team that has won more championships than the Redskins and the Nationals are the third attempt of keeping a professional Baseball club in the district, something is seriously wrong here.

Once again the problems are simple when the politicians who wear their DC United kits to the matches at RFK, but once they put on their business suites and sit behind their desks and see legislation on creating a new stadium for the club as well as home field advantage for the US National Team they decide to stamp Veto, instead of approve.

I know that Baseball is the National Past time of our country and besides supporting the New York Red Bulls I am a die hard Yankees fan, NY Rangers & Jets fan. But I can bring all those sides together and support them within my heart, just like others in DC who support their club and the Capitals, Redskins, Wizards. But honestly I just laugh at this situation with the Nationals as they keep on finding ways to embarrass themselves as well as their own fans for allowing a quarter of Philadelphia to overtake a giant section of their ballpark. One thing I know is true. Kevin Payne would never allow himself to be embarrassed by that big of a mistake of allowing that many visiting supporters to over take RFK.

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